The
Radical Metaphysics
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The event of overriding importance in my life occurred when I chose to leave the scientific world for a vocation of independent philosophy. I have never regretted this change. There have been three major literary influences in my philosophic life: 1. Friedrich Nietzsche who showed me how to write with my "blood." 2. Nicolai Berdyaev who taught me how philosophy differed from science. 3. Fernando Pessoa who revealed that it was possible to write meaningfully without regard to fame or fortune. Independent philosophy, as I conceive it to be, is the art of philosophical self-expression. It exists outside of academic philosophy, which for a long time has been devoted to analyses of cognition or to critiques of eminent philosophers. My view of philosophy, however, is that it is a form of creative non-fiction seeking out the truth of things. Thus it belongs to the world of the arts and not that of science.
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